Teenage Adds to Pocket Operators Sampler Series
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Spector Adds New Short-Scale Basses
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Music & Arts Joins Scottsdale Community with New Location
Music & Arts has announced the unveiling of their newest musical instrument store and lessons facility, located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The new store serves the residents of Scottsdale and the surrounding…
Ricci Joins American Way Marketing Team
American Way Marketing (AWM) has announced that Tim Ricci has joined the company as vice president. Ricci will be involved in all aspects of the business, initially concentrating on purchasing,…
Village Music Wellington Redefines What it Means to be an MI Store
Ah, the joys of visiting your favorite music store. Parsing through any new clearance items, ogling at the guitars hanging on the walls with pride, and… visiting the in-house café?…
The New Stomping Ground: StompLight Brings Top-Notch Lighting Effects to Performances of All Types with Ease and Versatility
It seems like such an obvious idea – the upsides are clear for all to see – you’d assume that folks must have developed this sort of thing decades ago:…
Guitars and Vinyl – Sometimes it’s a Marriage that Leads to a Deep and Lengthy (Customer) Engagement
Chocolate and peanut butter, fish and chips… Here’s another couple of things that seem to go together well: musical instruments and vinyl records. A few shops here and there have…
Chuck Surack of Sweetwater Sound: 2018 Recipient of MMR’s Annual Don Johnson Industry Service Award
Chuck Surack is, of course, best known as the founder of Sweetwater Sound (although he’s involved in a number of other business ventures, as well), but he’s every bit as…
UpFront Q&A Messe Frankfurt’s Michael Biwer
For some long-time attendees, Musikmesse Frankfurt has appeared to be “in decline” in recent years. A handful of big-name exhibitors have opted not to participate, attendance was seen to be…
Boutique Microphones: Adding a touch of personalization to a burgeoning mass-market sector
Microphones are big business. NAMM’s sales statistics for 2016 show the overall category is the fifth largest overall in revenue, just behind fretted and wind instruments, pro audio, and the…
East Cambridge Piano at 40: Adapt, Evolve, Succeed
First things first: Massachusetts’ East Cambridge Piano – one of the oldest piano dealers in the Boston area – is not located in the city of Cambridge, but rather in…
The Ideal in Service: 4 Keys to Success
In business we often think of “service” as the interaction between the customer and a retailer during a sales transaction, and today most businesses approach it just that way. But,…